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Police Inspector James Smith conspired with a since-retired Philadelphia police employee in the assault, police said.

One of the men had a gun permit for Virginia, which is not valid in Pennsylvania. The other man had no permit at all, authorities said. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports.

Police arrested two men in Center City Philadelphia late Thursday after receiving a tip that they were making threats against the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where the city’s mail-in ballots were still being counted.

Footage of Walter Wallace Jr.’s death shows Philadelphia Police officers telling him to drop a knife before firing their guns.

Rickia Young, a home health aide, was trying to drive home when she encountered protesters and police. Her attorneys say Philadelphia officers smashed her car windows and beat her.

Walter Wallace Jr. was shot by Philadelphia Police officers Monday Oct. 26, sparking protests and later looting in the city. Police and the mayor offered more details about what happened and what is not immediately known.

A Philadelphia officer faces aggravated assault charges after video surfaced of him striking a student protester in the head with a metal baton

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

A would-be mother was killed in a shooting Friday night in North Philadelphia that also left a man very seriously wounded, police said. Medical workers performed an emergency cesarean delivery on Ishan Charmidah Rahman, who was six months pregnant, but the baby did not survive, police said. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. near North Ninth and West York…

Philadelphia police have cleared the Flyers’ brash costumed mascot, Gritty, in the alleged assault of a 13-year-old boy during a fan photo event last year, a police spokesman said.

The next police commissioner of Philadelphia will be Portland, Oregon, Police Chief Danielle Outlaw. Outlaw, 44, has served as the top-ranking police official for the West Coast city for a little over two years, since October 2017. She was the first black woman to hold the position, according to her biography on the Portland city website. She will also be...

A Philadelphia McDonald’s worker was brutally attacked and beaten unconscious by a group of teen boys after she didn’t give them free food, according to her family.

An 11-month-old boy is fighting for his life after being shot four times while in a car in North Philadelphia.

A report of a suicidal man led to the discovery of 50 guns, eight inert grenades, pipe bomb materials, swords and more than two thousand rounds of ammunition inside a Philadelphia home Wednesday, according to police.

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to possessing a firearm without a license in a move that spared him a retrial and additional prison time.
The plea ended a decadelong legal battle that garnered national attention and became a symbol for criminal justice reform.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross, a three-decade veteran of the department who last week helped negotiate the surrender of a mass shooting suspect, abruptly resigned on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said in a news release.

Surveillance video appears to show the moment that Philadelphia police officers entered a home on a North Philadelphia block where a narcotics warrant was being served. Gunfire then can be heard. Neighbor Eric Garrity captured the video on his Ring doorbell. He went outside to see what was going on and police officers told him to go back inside. A...

A man accused of shooting six Philadelphia police officers during a standoff that lasted more than seven hours has surrendered to police.

A multistate manhunt came to an end near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tuesday as police arrested a 31-year-old former Harvard University Extension School student wanted on suspicion of killing his father days before in Philadelphia, authorities said. Sohan Panjrolia, 31, was taken into custody in the area, Cambridge police tweeted.

Two armored truck guards fired at two robbers during a morning heist that had people running from a crowded intersection in Philadelphia’s University City Thursday.